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Pre-PR question skill for coding agents before contributing to OSS

What to do

Clone the open-source skill into your Claude Code or Codex skills folder before opening a PR.

Why

Studies found the questions do not predict merges, so the benefit is unproven.

What the research found

An open-source Claude Code and Codex skill of pre-PR questions for contributors and maintainers, installable by cloning the repo into a skills folder; the author reports lower unmerged PR rates but studies found the questions do not predict merges.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

Install by cloning the repo into ~/.claude/skills/ask-before-you-pr for Claude Code or ~/.agents/skills/ask-before-you-pr for Codex 98%
Author's PRs closed unmerged fell from 62% to 14% from August to October 98%
Three studies found the questions do not significantly predict which PRs maintainers merge 97%
Questions live in QUESTIONS.md and SKILL.md sits at the repo root 98%

Evidence

github.com https://github.com/NickyHeC/ask-before-you-pr

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